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NYE VALLETTA CONCERT

Digitally Realised 2024
Role I Stage Designer 

Venue I St. George's Square, Valletta, Malta
My personal goal for this project was to design a concert event while also learning new 3D and rendering programmes. For this project, I used Vectorworks to create the actual stage and Cinema 4D with Redshift to render with lighting.

The New Year's Eve Valletta Concert is an annual event held in Malta's capital city and open to the public, featuring local artists. It occurs in one of the city's most prominent squares, surrounded by beautiful traditional architecture on all four sides, two of which are particularly significant, namely the Main Guard Building and the Grandmaster's Palace. The square has long been associated with Malta's Carnival, welcoming colourful floats, marching bands and crowds, but it also hosts other events such as art exhibitions, flower festivals, concerts...
Given that the square's architecture is such an important part of its aesthetic, I wanted to use it as a starting point for both the stage's location and form. The Palace's façade is already used each year to project a festive animation as well as the year's final countdown, which everyone, particularly the children, enjoys, so I wanted to keep it. The Main Guard's location made it ideal for hosting the stage and facilitating a full 360-degree experience. This allows the audience to shift their focus from one side of the square to the other, keeping it exciting.

Therefore, as part of the design, I really wanted to highlight the architecture of the Main Guard, particularly the middle six columns, and so both the geometry of the stage and the placement of the lighting should draw your attention to them. The white colour used for the stage helps by contrasting nicely with the stone of the architecture.

Four towers are also included in the design, spaced evenly around the square. Every day, four guards stand in front of the Palace, keeping an eye on the Palace and the surrounding square. These four towers, which stand high above the crowd and light up, represent the guards' power and their oversight of everything.
DESIGN PROCESS (Please click the arrows to follow)
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